2019 TVAD symposium

Artists, Designers and the Philosophers We Love

Thurs & Fri
20 & 21 June 2019

School of Creative Arts  |  University of Hertfordshire
College Lane  |  Film, Music and Media Building  |  B01

Thurs 20 June

16.15 Keynote

Dr Kerry Power (PhD) : How can diffraction support art making process?

Monash University |  Melbourne  |  Australia

17.15
Teodora Sinziana Fartan : Hyper Chaos: Exploring New Media Art through the Lens of Science Fiction, Speculative Realism and Weird Science

MFA student  |  Goldsmith’s College  |  University of London

17.35

Stephen Sewell : The Impoverishment of Truth

Independent Artist  |  USA

17.55

Prof Simeon Nelson : Process and Materiality - Solid Speculation in a Fluid World
University of Hertfordshire |  UK

18.15 Q+A panel discussion

18.30 Drinks Reception

Fri 21 June

10.00

Kerry Purcell : Risking Love: Encountering the universal through the local

University of Hertfordshire |  UK

10.20

Dave Ball : Doing Things Alphabetically: Sartre’s Autodidact and Tactically Absurd Practice

PhD candidate  | Winchester School of Art  |  UK

10.40

Lisa Taliano : Disorientation Re/presentation

Independent Artist  |  USA

11.00  Q+A panel discussion

11.20 Break 

11.40
Alison Pasquariello : Verbier Art Summit: a multi-directional exploration of Philosophy and Art
Verbier Art Summit | Switzerland

12.00
Shannon Forrester : Can painting be words? Can the philosophical be material?
PhD candidate  |  Royal College of Art  |  UK

12.20
Dr Anna Walker (PhD) : The haptic visual: making sense of the world through touch or being touched
Plymouth University  |  UK

12.40  Q+A panel discussion

13.00 Lunch

14.00
Chicks on Speed : Facing the Gesamtkunstwerk foot first
Prof Alexandra Murray-Leslie (PhD)  |  Trondheim Academy of Fine Art  |  Norway
Sophia Efstathiou  |  Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Ethics  | Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Prof Tina Frank  |  University of Art and Design, Linz  |  Austria

 

14.20 Yamu Wang : A Reader’s Response to A Thousand Plateaus’ Introduction to Rhizome -

& ICH & I & CH &

Zurich University of the Arts  |  Switzerland

14.40

Jaspal Birdi : Being connected is less costly than being engaged
Independent Artist  | Italy 

15.00  Q+A panel discussion

15.20 Break

15.40

Maria Patricia Tinajero : When Dirt Becomes Soil: Ecological Art Practices as a New Philosophy of Praxis in Age of the Antrophocene

PhD candidate  |  Institute for Doctoral Studies in Visual Art Philosophy in Portland, Maine  | USA

16.00 

Dr Sebastian Mühl (PhD) : On aesthetic indeterminacy
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt  |  Austria

16.20

Mimi Cabell : I'll work out tomorrow

Assistant Professor  |  Rhode Island School of Design  |  USA

16.40  Q+A panel discussion

17.00 end